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How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
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This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. Check out Adam Savage's video:    • Adam Savage's Penny Drop Wind Tunnel ...  

A massive thanks to Adam Savage and the whole Tested Crew – especially Kristen Lomasney, Ryan Kiser, and Joey Fameli. Thank you so much for coming out to the desert with us, and for inviting us to your cave! Check out the video we made with them on their channel –    • Adam Savage's Penny Drop Wind Tunnel ...  

Another huge thanks to iFly Ontario for letting us shoot in your amazing windtunnel. Special thanks to Diana Rios, Treasa Telle, Michelle Brumley for having us and Anthony Jones, Torrell Henderson and Nate Roth for being great instructors. iFly run STEM education trips, where you can experience terminal velocity first hand – www.iflyworld.com/programs/stem-field-trips/

Thanks to Inland Empire Film Services and the San Bernardino County Film Office for portions of the video shot in the County of San Bernardino.

The raindrop video is from Alistair McClymont’s gorgeous artwork “Raindrop” – ​​alistairmcclymont.com/artwork/raindrop/

Video of the raindrop breaking apart is from the coolest paper i’ve read in a while – Villermaux, E., & Bossa, B. (2009). Single-drop fragmentation determines size distribution of raindrops. Nature physics, 5(9), 697-702. – ve42.co/Villermaux



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Written by Petr Lebedev, Derek Muller, and Emily Zhang
Filmed by Derek Muller, Trenton Oliver, Petr Lebedev, Emily Zhang, Raquel Nuno and Eddie Lopez
Animation by Ivy Tello, Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, and Jakub Misiek
Edited by Trenton Oliver and Derek Muller
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@decreasing_entropy3003

1 year ago

As a Physics undergrad, this video scared me because for the first time, we saw that air resistance isn't negligible.

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@tested

1 year ago

This was SO fun. Can't wait to collaborate again!

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@jeffl1460

1 year ago

History will show in the future that these ancient coins were left in the desert during the times of having significant change. I wonder if they will be able to make cents of it all.

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@timmartin997

9 months ago

All of my science teachers through all of my years in school were not nearly as cool as you guys in explaining this in the way that you just did and I thank you.

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@dizzylimme

1 year ago

Imagine being an archeologist in the future and coming across hundreds of extremely rare and valuable ancient coins in the middle of a desert with no explanation

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@robinday8200

1 year ago

As a skydiver I have jumped in the rain and it hurts as you fall onto the rain. People used to joke it was because the cartoon raindrop was pointy at the top. The reality is, you're falling at 200kph and the rain is 20kph so the rain is hitting you at 180kph!

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@DreamwalkerFilms

1 year ago

I miss Adam Savage man. The guy was such an icon of my teenage years. His energy is so infectious. Really happy to see this little cameo from him.

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@Robodude212

1 year ago

Could you "stabilize" the penny's rotation by spinning it with the edge (like rolling a penny across the table, but down a skyscraper)? That would minimize the surface area and increase terminal velocity

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@samo4866

1 year ago

You know you've reached a specific level of YouTuber when you have a mythbuster on your show. This brought back so many memories from my teens.

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@RaphaelKepinski

1 year ago

It's moving to see Adam in this. I grew up with Mythbusters and he hasn't lost any of his verve and enthusiasm.

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@Lolabonezz

1 year ago

seeing the rain in the wind tunnel was so beautiful i literally cried wow

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@freedomofmusic2112

1 year ago

This was awesome! I'm in physics this semester, it's so cool seeing such a thorough explanation and demonstration of everything we just learned in our first unit 🙂

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@jaysonl

1 year ago

Thank you for including David Scott saying "How about that?" at the end after he drops the hammer and the feather on the Moon. That's my favorite part of the whole thing.

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@Verlisify

1 year ago

A lot of people these days didn't grow up with Mythbusters so I love the idea of revisiting the kinds of myths and rumors that were tested

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@Giggles56

3 weeks ago

I love this channel. Makes science more interesting and easier to comprehend. Thank you

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@cliftonwk

8 months ago

My first time viewing your content, I love the scientific explanations! So few people explain in detail how our world works, great job

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@JadeMythriil

1 year ago

Mythbusters may have ended but the spirit of mythbusters lives on in channels like this and many others that have been inspired to think, question, and experiment everything they find.

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@VezWay007

1 year ago

0:45 "if you ignore air resistance" spoken like a true physicist

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@Shockedbywater

10 months ago

1:36 It is cool seeing Adam go immediately into professional mode. It's like a switch flips and he is going over exactly how the shoot will go.

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@nuk3snip3r

9 months ago

I love that I clicked on this and thought "No one has ever shown this better than Adam Savage. Let's see what you got." And then I see that you got Adam Savage. Bravo.

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